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May 17, 2012[Walk the River]is not for the faint-hearted but it's certainly for the soft-hearted - three albums along, they still feed our hunger for the big, the wild and the honest.
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Dec 19, 2011An intimate and emotive affair which manages to pursue a slightly mellower direction while still retaining their trademark oddball sensibilities.
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MojoMay 17, 2011Walk The River is far more direct and carries a mood of singer-songwriter writ (very) large. [May 2011, p.105]
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Q MagazineMay 17, 2011The sentiment of the latter is clearly that the doubts and fuzziness of the past have gone and the future is now dazzlingly bright. On the strength of this sharply-focused, wholly impressive record, that much is certainly true for Guillemots. [May 2011, p.113]
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Apr 27, 2011This is a group who don't believe in understatement, so there's a lot going on, from the fuzzy guitar and spacey synth squeaks that take The Basket in a psychedelic direction to Tiger's girl-group harmonies, but none of it feels superfluous--every sound here contributes to a big, beautiful whole.
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May 17, 2012'Walk The River' is defiantly sky-punching stuff, chipping away at its own corner of neoclassicism between latter-day Pulp and late-80s Tears For Fears and displaying not only an excess of soaring Dangerfield vocals but also plenty of roaring guitars...and deftly-exploring haunt-pop suss.
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Apr 28, 2011Though there are still moments of eyeball rolling twee, the darker undertones are enough to more than keep us interested.
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Apr 27, 2011WTR is a classy bit of radio-friendly Mercury-bait which highlights Dangerfield's development as a songwriter.
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Apr 27, 2011While there is nothing here as magically refined as 'Made-Up Love Song #43', and Dangerfield's lyrics sometimes veer into fromage-land, Walk The River represents a must-have for those with pop tastes.